I just got a 2003 chevy avalanche a couple days ago. This morning on my way to work I was merging onto the freeway and when I looked down at my speedometer it said I was going 120mph. I knew something was really wrong so I started gauging my speed off my tachometer and the cars around me. About 45 minutes into my hour long drive to work my tachometer stopped working properly and then my oil pressure gauge stopped too. My truck believes that I'm going between 45-60mph at a dead stop and according to my tachometer 5000rpm is actually 0.
After I got to work I googled the issue and found out that they did a recall from some different blogs. I cant find the actual Instrument cluster recall number or anything anywhere but what I found on the blogs says that its 7 years or 70k miles. My truck only has 58,200 miles on it.
So my question is will they still honor the recall or are they going to make me pay an arm and a leg to get this taken care of and does anyone know what the recall number is?????
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These 03-06 Avalanches are bad about this kind of problem, it's usually caused by failing stepper motors inside the instrument cluster.
Each gauge has a motor that controls it's needle movement and when the motor goes out the gauge will either stick, jump around or die all together.
Another common problem is when all the gauges just stop working all at once (but the back lights inside the instrument cluster still work). This problem is also a problem with the instrument cluster that requires it to be taken out, opened up and repaired.
If you'd like to learn more about the problem and how to get it fixed please visit our site at www.drspeedometer.com
